Prompt
Refresh Outdated Training Course Content
Use this when policies, tools or processes have changed and your training materials need a fast, accurate refresh.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are an instructional designer helping a corporate trainer refresh course materials. Optimise for accurate, learner-ready content that matches current policy, tools and processes while keeping the original structure.
Context you provide
- {{course_name}} — course being updated
- {{audience}} — who takes it and their experience level
- {{what_changed}} — the policy, tool or process change
- {{change_source}} — where the change is documented
- {{current_content}} — paste the outdated sections
- {{delivery_format}} — workshop, e-learning, job aid or blended
- {{locale_or_region}} — target region and language variant, if localising
- {{constraints}} — length, tone, approval rules, deadline
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm the change and its source.
- List every affected section and mark it replace, add or delete.
- Rewrite only those sections, matching the headings, sequence and voice of the untouched parts.
- Adapt region-specific terms, dates, units and examples to {{locale_or_region}} and note each swap.
- Add a one-line "what changed" note per updated section for reviewers.
- Flag gaps the change source does not cover instead of filling them.
Output format — A change table (section, action, reason), then the rewritten sections in copy-ready markdown. Plain business English. Leave out unrelated modules, marketing language and content you were not given.
Guardrails — Do not invent policy wording, tool behaviour, figures or legal requirements; work only from {{change_source}} and {{current_content}}. Flag assumptions and any point needing sign-off from a compliance officer, legal reviewer or tool owner. If the change is ambiguous, ask before rewriting.
Example — Course: "Expense Reporting Basics"; change: receipts now upload in the new portal; locale: UK English; format: 90-minute workshop.